Audacity is a multi-track sound recorder and editor with support for most audio formats and sophisticated effects such as noise removal and studio reverb. Users can record live audio, compress or convert file types, as well as cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.

Current version is somehow stealth after configuring the temporary folder to point to something inside the program folder (Audacity doesn't accept the system temp folder) - the created "Audacity/SessionStore" folder in LocalAppData can then be deleted.No entries in the registry any more (except Audio.. PropertyStore, but this applies to all programs with sound output and is not persistent)

The registry key can be deleted, and is not recreated on subsequent launches. Alternatively, you can prevent it being created in the first place: before first launch, create a new text file in the Portable Settings folder called audacity.cfg, containing the single line: "NewPrefsInitialized=1" (without quotes).

This makes the program stealth. The only files it writes to the User folder are in %TEMP%. (And even this can be changed in the settings.)

Probably stealth. Delete the registry key after the first time you launch the program and see if it gets recreated

V2.0.0

recording-man2009-04-30 05:35

I am working on large audio material (30min speech - sometimes with music). Functions: Normalize - Compress / Limit, Cut, Equalize. Audacity is much to slow to handle that. (Wavosaur is better - Nero Wave Eeditor is realy fast, but it is not stable.)

use UPX Tool+ to compress "audacity.exe" and you have a portable version that is less than 2 MB.

Webfork2007-05-28 20:02

Excellent and useful basic audio edition program especially for users of digital recording devices. Being able to do basic filtering, normalize audio, and cut useless silence is irreplacable. Advanced features for multi-track recording also available. Recommend that users take a few minutes to learn the shortcut keys -- makes the program so much better.

Anonymous2007-01-30 22:59

Registry handling was improved in this version (1.2.6) for Guest and Limited accounts.

XPect2006-04-18 01:35

This launcher won't run properly on machines where the registry modification as been disabled by admin !